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> How will we spend your money? on lawyers

• dmix 14y ago
  Amphetiamines are used by the military to keep pilots awake and has a plenty of other legal uses. Methamphetiamine, for example, is prescribed by doctors to treat ADHD in low doses. What exactly is illegal about researching the effects of the drug on the brain? The usual difficultly in studying this stuff is finding funding.
  • nowarninglabel 14y ago
    Either you live in a country with much more liberal drug laws than the UK or US, or you are a bit misinformed. These countries have very strict regulations on who can possess quantities of scheduled narcotics, even for research. It took nearly a decade to get regulatory approval to schedule a MDMA research study in the U.S. It's hard to find source on this stuff, but you can see as noted here: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn22280-a-real-fmri-high-my-ecstasy-brain-scan.html http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn22280-a-real-fmri-high...
    • dmix 14y ago
      MDMA is not used clinically like Amphetamines are. You can find amphetamines at pharmacies in the USA under the brands: Adderall, Dexedrine, Dextrostat, Desoxyn, Didrex, ProCentra, and Vyvanse. In addition, the article doesn't say they are specifically going to use Meth, only amphetamine.
      • bennyg 14y ago
        Exactly. Desoxyn is brand name for dextro-methamphetamine, the CNS-active stereo isomer. Levo-methamphetamine is found in those little Vicks nasal inhalers you stuff in each nostril to clear your sinuses.
      • keefe 14y ago
        MDMA still has limited clinical use and is under research, as is LSD but it is under quite tight controls. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02791072.2008.10400637 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02791072.2008.104... http://psycnet.apa.org/psycinfo/1987-01824-001 http://psycnet.apa.org/psycinfo/1987-01824-001
    • dhbanes 14y ago
      MDMA is Schedule I and amphetamines are Schedule II in the US. There's a pretty big difference (legally) between those two classifications.
      • smartwater 14y ago
        Marijuana is also Schedule I
        • dhbanes 14y ago
          Yes, it sure is.
  • keefe 14y ago
    >What exactly is illegal about researching the effects of the drug on the brain? Unless you dot all your i's and cross all your t's, you'll end up ending with illegal precursor substances in your possession. Synthetic drugs are one of the most serious causes of death in the club scene, stuff like 5MAOI-MIPT, 2CI etc. For the record, the air force has switch from amphetamines to modafinil and yes, it is adderral for "ADHD"